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Messaging on data centers is hard. This committee offers a safe space.

As House Republicans fight behind closed doors about how to respond to the backlash against data centers, one committee is pushing forward on the issue publicly.The House Energy and Commerce Commit...

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25 Years After 9/11, Muslims Are Still Politicians’ Favorite Scapegoat

A quarter century after the September 11 attacks emboldened then-President George W. Bush to launch the “war on terror,” many Americans might like to think they’re wiser than the poli...

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Secret Service failed to update protection policies for decades, report finds

The U.S. Secret Service failed to update a range of protection policies for foreign trips and emergency situations involving the president and vice president despite recent attacks and threats, a g...

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Ending ‘Christmas for criminals’: Coalition's tobacco tax cut argument

CANBERRA — Australia’s strict tobacco laws aren't working. A booming black market now accounts for more than half of nicotine consumed in the country, driving money away from government coffers and...

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Australia pledged a plan to care for its military women. They hope it's close.

Advocates who feel the Veterans' Affairs and Defence departments have taken too long to produce a strategy to help Australia’s military women — promised after a 2021 royal commission exposed "sad a...

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RFK Jr. is investigating whether troops died of Covid vaccine, Army doctor says

An Army doctor told a federal court in Virginia she’s working with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to probe whether troops died from Covid-19 vaccines afte...

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Diesel prices hit all-time high as Trump administration brandishes energy policies

U.S. diesel fuel prices hit a record high Thursday afternoon, according to a fuel price monitoring service, surpassing the previous peak set in 2022 as surging crude oil and refining bottlenecks se...

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Trump’s White House adjusts to life without Karoline Leavitt

Vice President JD Vance ended a more than 40-day drought in the White House briefing room Thursday, fielding reporters’ questions from a podium that had sat unused for weeks.And the White House doe...

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Republicans once hoped the Iran war would end before the elections. They’ve given up that dream.

Republican campaigns and operatives have reached the fifth stage of grief over President Donald Trump’s Iran war: acceptance.With two months until Election Day, diesel prices at record highs and th...

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The Hasan Piker Question

Like late-summer humidity, Hasan Piker hangs heavy over the discourse.At a rally on Monday, Vice President Vance brought up the hard-left streamer in an attempt to paint the Democratic Senate candi...

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Carney brushes off Lutnick’s take on what killed trade talks

Prime Minister Mark Carney says there’s little value in Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s claims about why Canada walked away from trade negotiations.Trump Cabinet members have launched coordinat...

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Kamala Harris on red-state Dems keeping her at arm's length: ‘Whatever they need to do to win’

Former Vice President Kamala Harris shrugged off calls from red-state Democrats for the former presidential candidate to stay away from their races, saying that she supports “them in doing whatever...

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New IRS proposal threatens universities' tax-exempt status over diversity programs

The Trump administration unveiled a plan Thursday to cancel the tax-exempt status of universities that it says give preferential treatment to minority students.The proposed regulations released by ...

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With Anti-DSA Bill, Congress Is Red-Baiting Like It’s 1955

As summer turns into fall, the United States remains mired in a wildly unpopular war in Iran. On the home front, inflation is stubbornly persistent. All indications point to the president’s party s...

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Mark Zuckerberg said a national AI regulator was a flawed idea in a secret call with President Trump

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed concerns about plans for a national AI regulator in a previously unreported phone call with President Donald Trump last month, marking the involvement of one of t...

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Kamala Harris is wading into the midterms. Some Democrats want her to stay out.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is revving up her involvement in the midterms. While some Democrats are eager to embrace her, others want her to steer clear.Harris is planning to attend a canva...

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Gloria Steinem, trailblazing feminist organizer, dies at 92

Gloria Steinem, a writer and trailblazing feminist organizer who became the face of the women’s movement, has died. She was 92.She died on Wednesday at her home in New York City, according to a pos...

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MORNING GLORY: 'Blue Blight' is spreading fast and only voters can stop it

"Blue blight" is spreading across northeastern and west coast America, with scattered outbreaks in the interior of the country like Illinois and Colorado. It is up to voters to stop its spread."Blu...

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Sen. Jim Justice is exploring another run for governor

Less than two years into his Senate term, Jim Justice is seriously considering launching a campaign to return to the governor’s mansion.The West Virginia Republican is exploring a 2028 gubernatoria...

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Pentagon wants private companies to help it scale up its hacking operations

Recent drafts of the Defense Department’s forthcoming cyber strategy would encourage the Pentagon to enlist private contractors to support the military's offensive hacking efforts, according to thr...

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German defense chief to meet with Hegseth after earlier snub

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will meet with the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Washington this month, a surprising shift after the Pentagon chief rebuffed a visit earlier this year.Th...

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